I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.